Antoine Bourdelle in the the 15th arrondissement, Paris

Musée Bourdelle is based in and around the former home and studio of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) in the 15th arrondissement. It was established as a museum in 1949. The size of some of the exhibits make this museum quite remarkable, almost overpowering.

The Great Hall, with Centaure Mourant, modèle imberbe (Dying Centaur, unbearded version) in shadows on the right.

Auguste Rodin (1910) in the front garden.

Bourdin's atelier (studio).

I didn't expect to find misericords there.

La Vierge à l'offrande (The virgin of the Offering) in the interior gardens.

Télémaque reçu à Pylos par Nestor (Telemachus Received at Pylos by Nestor).

Anatole France (1919).

Portrait of Bourdelle (1930) by Otto Otto Bänniger.

Study of head for Le Monument à Adam Mickiewitz (1909–28), the Polish romantic poet.

 

A fragment of Bourdelle's monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855).

Mickiewitz's statue as it is at the top of the monument, which was installed at place de l'Alma in Paris, and was then moved to Cours Albert-I^er, where it remains today.

Anatole France: Le Cimetière ancien de Neuilly-sur-Seine #2

 

This time I had no trouble finding the grave of Anatole France (1844–1924),  François Anatole Thibault's pseudonym. He was one of the greatest writers and literary critics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in 1921 he was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature. He was also involved in many of the social and political concerns of his time – he was a Dreyfusard, for instance.

 

A great number of Anatole France's books are freely available online, in French and in English, via Project Gutenberg. I provide a link to them below, as well as to my original post of other graves in this cemetery:

 

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Anatole France's work
Cimetière ancien de Neuilly-sur-Seine

6th and 7th arrondissements, by the Seine, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #29

7 rue des grands Augustins.

'PABLO PICASSO

VÉCUT DANS CET IMMEUBLE DE 1936 À 1955

C'EST DANS CET ATELIER QU'IL PEIGNAIT

"GUERNICA" EN 1937'

'PABLO PICASSO

LIVED IN THIS BUILDING FROM 1936 TO 1955

IT IS IN THIS WORKSHOP THAT HE PAINTED

"GUERNICA" IN 1937'.

'C'EST ICI ÉGALEMENT QUE BALZAC

SITUE L'ACTION DE SA NOUVELLE

"LE CHEF D'OUEUVRE INCONNU"'.

'IT IS HERE TOO THAT BALZAC

SITUATED THE ACTION OF HIS SHORT STORY

"THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE"'.

In rue de Seine, at the back of the Institut de France, is a small enclosed grassy area with a bust and a statue of two noted French writers:

The more evident is Voltaire.

Although Montesquieu is hiding there.

L'Hôtel, rue des Beaux-Arts, 6th arrondissement.

Oscar Wilde (1854—1900).

'OSCAR WILDE

Poète et Dramaturge

NÉ À DUBLIN

LE 15 OCTOBRE 1856

EST MORT DANS CETTER MAISON

LE 30 NOVEMBRE 1900'

'OSCAR WILDE

Poet and Playwright

BORN IN DUBLIN

15 OCTOBER 1856

DIED IN THIS HOUSE

30 NOVEMBER 1900'

 

'ICI VÉCUT

JORGE LUIS BORGES

1899 — 1986

Écrivain Argentin

LORS DE SES FRÉQUENTS SÉJOURS

À PARIS DE 1977 À 1984'

'HERE LIVED

JORGE LUIS BORGES

1899 — 1986

Argentinian Writer

DURING HIS FREQUENT STAYS

IN PARIS FROM 1977 TO 1984'

At 19 quai Malaquais, a barely visible sign around the scaffolding:

'ANATOLE FRANCE

NÉ LE 16 AVRIL 1844

QUAI MALAQUAIS NO. 19

HABITA DANS CET HÔTEL

DE 1844 À 1853'

And at 19 Quai Voltaire:

'ICI 

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

JEAN SIBELIUS

RICHARD WAGNER

OSCAR WILDE

ONT HONORÉ PARIS

DE LEVR SÉJOVR'

'L'AURORE GRELOTTANTE EN ROBE ROSE ET VERTE
S'AVANÇAIT LENTEMENT SUR LA SEINE DÉSERTE
ET LE SOMBRE PARIS, EN SE FROTTANT LES YEUX,
EMPOINGNAIT SES OUTILS, VIEILLARD LABORIEUX'.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"Le CRÉPUSCULE du MATIN"
LES FLEURS du MAL'

Le Voltaire, the house where Voltaire died.

'VOLTAIRE

NÉ À PARIS

LE 21 NOVEMBRE 1694

EST MORT

DANS CETTE MAISON

LE 30 MAI 1778'